Mikaela Shiffrin will ski Wednesday for the season World Cup overall title.

Heading into the giant slalom, the final race of the season, Shiffrin has an 85-point lead over Emma Aicher of Germany.

Shiffrin won her ninth slalom in 10 World Cup starts this season on Tuesday, earning 100 points. She increased her overall lead on Aicher, who finished third to grab 60 points.

To take the title, Aicher must win the race — a discipline in which she never has finished higher than fourth — and hope that Shiffrin finishes worse than 15th.

Shiffrin, 31, is striving to win her sixth overall World Cup title, which would tie her with Annemarie Moser-Proll. The Austrian won five season titles from 1971-75 and the final one in 1979.

The 2026 Olympic champion in the slalom, Shiffrin won the World Cup title in consecutive years from 2017-19 and again in 2022 and 2023.

With her slalom win on Tuesday, Shiffrin earned her 110th career victory on the World Cup circuit, extending her lead over Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 86 before his retirement in 1989.

–Field Level Media

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has withdrawn from this week’s Texas Children’s Houston Open due to the imminent birth of his second child, Golf Channel reported.

Scheffler and his wife, Meredith, welcomed a son, Bennett, on May 8, 2024, a few weeks after Scheffler’s second Masters victory.

Scheffler was expected to tee it up in his home state. The four-time major winner has played this event six times with four top 10 finishes. He finished in a tie for second in both 2024 and 2025.

Min Woo Lee of Australia is the defending champion.

PGA Tour Communications announced that Bud Cauley also withdrew from the tournament in Houston, with Matt Kuchar and Seamus Power of Ireland being added into the field.

Austin Smotherman, Cam Davis of Australia, Ryo Hisatsune of Japan and Michael Kim withdrew from the tournament on Sunday. Those four golfers were replaced by Jimmy Stanger, Jesper Svensson of Sweden, and Danny Willett and Paul Waring, both of England.

On Monday, Doug Ghim entered the tournament after Matt McCarty withdrew.

–Field Level Media

Grand Slam Track founder Michael Johnson will pay $500,000 to vendors in lieu of them filing a lawsuit against the bankrupt league.

Front Office Sports reported Tuesday that Johnson and the vendors who did work for the league were in agreement, according to its review of a Monday court filing.

The money in question was a $500,000 payment that Johnson took from the league in June 2025 before filing from bankruptcy, millions of dollars in debt. A committee representing the creditors contended the payment was fraudulent, which Johnson said was not factual, according to the filing.

An Olympic champion, Johnson founded the league and signed 48 of the world’s top athletes to compete in four events with a $12.6 million prize pool. Only three events were held before the final scheduled meet in Los Angeles was canceled due to financial shortages.

Only three of the events ended up being held — in Miami, Philadelphia and Kingston, Jamaica — before the final scheduled meet in Los Angeles was canceled.

Athletes listed as being owed money, as listed in the league’s January bankruptcy filing, include four-time Olympic gold-medalist hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ($268,750), reigning U.S. 100-meter champion Kenny Bednarek ($195,000) and Olympic 200-meter gold medalist Gabby Thomas ($185,625).

Front Office Sports reported that in the Monday filing, Grand Slam said it would alter its previous bankruptcy repayment plan to pay the athletes 70% of the $7 million they are owed instead of the previously planned 85%. The vendors’ cut will rise from 1.5% of the money due to them to as much as 15%.

The judge in the case and the other creditors, including the athletes, still must sign off on Grand Slam Track’s proposal. The court scheduled a hearing for next month.

–Field Level Media